Alabama ACLU

As the 2024 Presidential Election draws near, Alabama still has one of the lowest voter turnout percentages in the nation. The ACLU of Alabama is working to increase voter participation in Alabama with Project MOVE (Making Our Voices Echo).

Hundreds of local drivers who paid fines from speeding cameras installed by a multibillion dollar company will get full refunds, the Mayor of Tuskegee confirmed.

Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died. He was 86. Buxtun was also a key interview in Alabama Public Radio’s national award-winning investigation of rural health in the State, which focused in part on the twentieth anniversary of President Bill Clinton’s apology for the study.

The ACLU of Alabama is announcing a new multi-year strategy to increase voter turnout across the state. Project MOVE (Making Our Voices Echo) aims to make civic engagement more accessible for more Alabamians.

An Alabama inmate will not ask the courts to block his execution next week but is requesting that the state not perform an autopsy on his body because of his Muslim faith, according to a lawsuit.

The U.S. Department of Justice, which sued Alabama over prison conditions, filed a statement of interest in a lawsuit by prisoners who said they are subjected to unconstitutional levels of violence and excessive force.

An Associated Press investigation into prison labor in the United States found that prisoners who are hurt or killed on the job are often being denied the rights and protections offered to other American workers. In Alabama alone, at least three men have died since 2015.

A divided Supreme Court ruled that authorities do not have to provide a quick hearing when they seize cars and other property used in drug crimes, even when the property belongs to so-called innocent owners. The case involves Alabama.

A federal judge said abortion rights advocates can proceed with lawsuits against Alabama's attorney general over threats to prosecute people who help women travel to another state to terminate pregnancies.

Alabama lawmakers advanced a bill Wednesday that would ban teachers from displaying LGBTQ+ pride flags on public school property and extend the state's ban on teacher-led discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity.